Explain this one

A missing moon rock surfaced this week among Bill Clinton’s stuff at an Arkansas library.

That may be one of the oddest sentences you’ll read this year. It’s true, however. (Read about it here.) A worker found it while going through boxes, trying to catalog items from Clinton’s time as governor.
Critics of the former president liked to stereotype him as an unsophisticated Southern hillbilly. I suppose this fits into that stereotype. But, really, who knows how it got there?
The rock was from Apollo 17, which brought back 50 samples, one for each state. That was long before Clinton was governor, however.
This raises a larger question. Does the nation really know the location of the 843 pounds of moon rocks astronauts brought home during the late ’60s and early ’70s? Until we muster the money and the will to go back there, those things will be kind of rare.

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Jay Evensen

Jay Evensen is the Associate Editor of the Deseret News editorial page. He has 30 years of journalism experience covering politics and a variety of other assignments at news organizations ranging from United Press International in New York City to the Las Vegas Review-Journal and the Deseret News, where he has worked for 26 years. During that time, he has won numerous local, regional and national awards. Most recently, he was given the Cameron Duncan Media Award, given annually in Washington, D.C., by the advocacy group RESULTS, to the journalist judged to have done the most to further the cause of the world's poorest people.

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